412 Assembly Proceedings, June 15-July 3, 1773.

Liber R. G.

1773
[Sheriff to
execute said
Writ, and
make an
Inventory,
&c.]

are hereby required authorized and Commanded well and faithfully
to execute and forthwith to make with the assistance of two Sub-
stantial Freeholders on Oath not being Creditor or Creditors which
Freeholders the said sheriff is hereby required and impowered to
summon or swear for that purpose a just and true Inventory and
Appraisement of all such Goods and Chattels as he shall seize and
take by Virtue thereof and return the same together with a Schedule
of the said Evidences Books of Account and Papers signed by him-
self and the said Two Freeholders with the Writ of Attachment to

[And to be
paid rea-
sonable
Charges,
over and
above a
Commission
of 3 per
cent.]

the Court to which the said Writ is returnable And the said Sheriff
shall be paid his reasonable Account of Charges and Expenses in
safe keeping the said Goods and Chattels so seized and Attached
over and above a Commission at the rate of Three pounds per
Centum on the value or amount of the said Inventory by the Owner
of the said Goods if the Attachment should be dissolved or by the
Trustees hereinafter mentioned if Trustees should be appointed

[Creditors
to give pub-
lick Notice
of Attach-
ment being
issued, &c.]

And be it Enacted that immediately upon the issuing of any such
Attachment the Creditor or Creditors who procured the same shall
give Publick Notice by Advertisement set up at the Court House
Door of the County where returnable if issued out of the County
Court or in the Maryland Gazette if returnable to the Provincial
Court of such Writ of Attachment having been issued and that
unless the absconding Person shall return and discharge his or
her Debts or give Bail according to this Act all his or her real
and personal Estate will be sold for the satisfaction of his or her
Creditors

[Debtors,
&c. of
absconding
Persons,
after Notice,
&c. paying
them the
Debts, are
liable to
repay the
same.]
p. 189

And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any
Debtor or Debtors of the aforesaid absconding Person or the Bailee
or Bailees or other Possessor or Possessors of his or her Goods or
Effects after actual Notice of the Issuing of such Attachments or after
Thirty Days from the Time of setting up such Advertisement or
inserting the same in the Gazette as aforesaid respectively shall pay
the said Debt or Debts or Deliver the said Goods or Effects to the
said Absconding Person or to any other Person or Persons what-
soever to his or her use the said Person or Persons so paying the
said Debt or Debts or Delivering the said Goods or Effects shall
be Deemed and adjudged to have paid the same Debt or Debts or
Delivered the said Goods or Effects fraudulently and in their own
wrong and hereby are made liable to answer the same or the amount
or Value thereof to such person or persons who shall by Virtue of
this Act be impowered to receive and dispose of the Estate or Estates
of the said Absconding person towards the satisfaction of his or
her Creditors And in Case the Person or Persons so indebted to
the said Absconding Person or the Bailee or Bailees or other pos-
sessor or possessors of his or her Goods or Effects shall after the
said Notice be sued by him or her for the said Debt or Debts Goods